Troubles with Promise SATA 300 TX4

c4onastick · 06-19-2007, 11:35 PM

I bought one of these cards to expand an old file server I've got running. I recompiled a 2.6.21.5 kernel to include support for it (built-in, not a module) but I'm not getting any new drives showing up in /dev. Any one had any experience with this card? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! (BTW, its a Slackware 10.2 box)

Relevant dmesg output:

Code:

sata_promise 0000:00:0f.0: version 2.00
PCI: setting IRQ 12 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 0000:00:0f.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 12 with 0000:00:02.2
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf0800200 ctl 0xf0800238 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 12
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf0800280 ctl 0xf08002b8 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 12
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf0800300 ctl 0xf0800338 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 12
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf0800380 ctl 0xf08003b8 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 12
scsi0 : sata_promise
ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
scsi1 : sata_promise
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
scsi2 : sata_promise
ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
scsi3 : sata_promise
ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata4.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0, 21.00M21, max UDMA/133
ata4.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/1)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD3200YS-01P 21.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 0000:00:02.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 12 with 0000:00:0f.0
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: irq 12, io mem 0xcfffd000

Relevant lspci output:

Code:

00:0f.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02)

Thanks!

c4onastick · 06-20-2007, 12:15 AM

UPDATE:

I noticed the shared IRQ when I posted last, so I swapped the card into a different slot and tried again, still nothing in /dev.

I'm wondering if I might be running out of power. This will be the fourth HD in this server on a 400W PSU.

c4onastick · 06-20-2007, 09:30 PM

So for those still following this saga, I forgot to add SCSI hard drive support to the kernel, and Low-and-Behold SATA drives are recognized as SCSI drives. Oops.